Gabe is heads down this weekend prepping for his defense on Monday. so we’re spending our weekend prepping for the festivities planned for after

in running errands, I enjoyed soakign up portland culture !

Max is on his way up.. driving up with our granddog violet..  violet is goign to meert our other granddog nova for the first time. Should be fun ! we gott some pics from the road

we aew on doggie daycare duty here .. too

we are seeing gabe just long enough to keep him fed and watered..

still fun though !

nite all, nite sam
-me

 

love wakign up in portland.. flowers and attitude everywhere .. !

we came across an end of school festival at the middle school around the corner from our airbnb. middle school rock band sounded great !

Today was Gabes hooding ceremony.. Its when all the studentsfrom OHSU walk the stage and get their diploma and , for the PhD’s .. the hoods for their regalia. Each program in each university has their own hood with their university and department colors..   All the professors were wearign their regalia from all their different rpgrams.. super fun and colorful to see them all. ..

It’s quite the spectacle..

Gabes day is a little strange as his PhD defense is not till next monday.. so technically he hasnt graduated.. but they let him walk anyway.. which was great.. !

gabes friend and colaborator  did the commencement speach 

Gabes freind Jen.. Who is also from Richmond and went to preschool with Gabe graduated in the same class… It’s pretty remarkable to have two kids from small town of Vermont

then it was Gabe’s turn !

we are SOOOOO proud of that boy !!!!!

now.. he has a weekend of preparing for his defense.. !

nite all, nite sam
-me

Hellow from portland.. one of my favorite cities now.. It wears its attitude on every bumber and every light pole. 

Diane quickly wen tto work on Gabes gardens while he worked on his thesis defense talk.. 

diane introduced me to Aphid larvae .. kind of beautiful !

very glad to be here !

nite all, nite sam
-me

Jen came and picked us up this mornign for our trip out west for Gabes graduation. We’ve never had this much luggage.. most of our luggage was full of party supplies (10 white lab coats, a tesla coil, a ton of xmas lights.. what else ?!?!) .. 

two stop flight out to Oregon.. Was smooth.. got lots of work done.. . Whiel working, I watched (but did no listen to)  Citizen Kane .. one of my favorite moviews

Before I knew it.. we were almost there !

Really looking forward to this coming week and a half.
gabe’sgradulating. turning 30, defending his thesis, Max and becky are coming in.. should be fun !
nite all. nite sam
-me